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Part One: The story of Maine Medical Center is rooted in Victorian America and owes much to the social conscience of the times. Great changes were taking place in the years preceding the construction of Maine’s first general hospital. Industrialization, European immigration, breakthroughs in medical science, new public health policies, and the Civil War formed the crucible out of which it emerged. Only 100 years before, such an institution would have been virtually unimaginable.

Institution/Department

Maine Medical Center

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

Maine Medical Center

City

Portland, Maine

Disciplines

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Comments

A Hospital for Maine is a celebration of the people who have made MMC the award-winning institution it is today, a century-plus snapshot of a history very much in the making.

A Hospital for Maine: Part 1- The Rise of Maine General Hospital

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